The Nigerian Correctional Service has recaptured four hundred and twenty-one inmates who fled from its facility in Kuje Abuja, while four hundred and fifty-four others are still at large.
According to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Correctional Service, this is just as the committee said it had summoned the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; and Comptroller-General of the NCoS, Haliru Nababa, to appear before it over the recent attack on the Kuje Custodial Centre.
The committee also invited the Commander of the Nigerian Army Platoon on duty on the night of the attack noting that the recent jailbreaks by gunmen leading to the release of inmates are worrisome.
Chairman of the committee on Correctional Service, EDWIN ANAYO, disclosed this during an oversight visit to the facility on Thursday, said the lawmakers met one hundred and fifteen inmates.
It could be recalled that the inmates, including sixty-nine suspected Boko Haram members, had escaped Kuje Medium Custodial Centre on Tuesday last week after members of the Islamic State for West Africa Province attacked the facility.
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